new list member and first question

[Max Bloch]

Hello FreeType community:

I have just recently found out about the FreeType project and am totally
amazed about its capabilities. Since I am new to this list, I think it
would be best to first introduce myself. My Name is Max Bloch, I live in
Berlin Germany and actually don't have much knowledge of typography or
coding, but nonetheless I am interested in using FreeType for an
oncoming project of mine. I am currently building a website which will
offer freeware and shareware TrueType and PostScript fonts at
1001fonts.com (No need to look, since there is nothing there yet). I
would like to use FreeType to dynamically build gif previews of the
fonts on the site, close to what the FreeType Demo by Pavel Kankovsky
does (http://mbox.troja.mff.cuni.cz/~peak/ftdemo/index.cgi).

Now to my question: I haven't gotten very far using FreeType, since I
can't seem to get it installed, so I am hoping that someone on this list
can give me some installation hints. I am trying to compile FreeType
v1.3.1 under Red Hat Linux v6.0 on an Intel Pentium III box. running
./configure seems to work fine but I get an error message when running
make. I can't make sense of the error message, since I don't understand
much about unix and/or coding so no use explaining my problem any
further. I have attached the output of ./configure and the errors
encountered in make to this mail further below. I would be very grateful
if somebody could help me out getting FreeType installed correctly on my
box.

To generate the font previews, I plan on using ftstrpnm and ppmtogif
(netpbm package). I was able to install the netpbm package without any
problems. Otherwise, if anybody has experience using the FreeType
library with GD, I would be interested in any info for doing this, since
I am programming my website with php which supports the use of GD.

Regards,

Max

==[./configure output]=========================================>

creating cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
updating cache ./config.cache
loading cache ./config.cache within ltconfig
checking for object suffix... o
checking for executable suffix... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions ... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... -static
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries...
yes
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking dynamic linker characteristics... Linux ld.so
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
checking for objdir... .libs
creating libtool
updating cache ./config.cache
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc -g -O2 ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for setlocale... yes
checking for libintl.h... yes
checking for gettext in -lintl... no
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for dcgettext... yes
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking for rm... rm
checking for rmdir... rmdir
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... (cached) yes
checking for gethostbyname... yes
checking for socket... yes
checking for cos in -lm... yes
checking for X... no
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for working const... yes
checking size of int... 4
checking size of long... 4
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for getpagesize... yes
checking for working mmap... yes
checking for memcpy... yes
checking for memmove... yes
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating MakeSub
creating lib/arch/unix/Makefile
creating test/arch/unix/Makefile
creating po/Makefile.in
creating ft_conf.h


==[last lines of make output]====================================>

cd test; make -f arch/unix/Makefile all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/max/install/freetype-1.3.1/test'
gcc -c -I. -I/home/max/install/freetype-1.3.1/test/arch/unix/../.. -I..
-I/home/max/install
/freetype-1.3.1/test/arch/unix/../../../lib
-I/home/max/install/freetype-1.3.1/test/arch/un
ix/../../../lib/extend -g -O2  -Wall -pedantic -ansi  -DX11
-DLOCALEDIR='"/usr/local/share/
locale"'
/home/max/install/freetype-1.3.1/test/arch/unix/../../arch/unix/gwin_x11.c
/home/max/install/freetype-1.3.1/test/arch/unix/../../arch/unix/gwin_x11.c:22:
X11/Xlib.h:
No such file or directory
/home/max/install/freetype-1.3.1/test/arch/unix/../../arch/unix/gwin_x11.c:23:
X11/Xutil.h:
 No such file or directory
/home/max/install/freetype-1.3.1/test/arch/unix/../../arch/unix/gwin_x11.c:24:
X11/cursorfo
nt.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [gwin_x11.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/max/install/freetype-1.3.1/test'
make: *** [tttest] Error 2